• Sabra Health Care REIT Picks Up the Transaction Pace

    Sabra Health Care REIT is ramping up its senior care M&A activity and its SHOP exposure, set to exceed the $1 billion in investments it spent in 2025. The REIT completed several transactions during the first quarter, with investments closed year to date totaling $206.1 million, with an estimated initial cash yield of 8.0%. The pipeline... Read More »
  • Clarion Partners Continues Growing

    Clarion Partners is continuing on its acquisition streak, adding Legacy House of Avondale to its portfolio. The 169-unit Class-A assisted living/memory care community is in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, with a strong operational footing. Clarion Partners further expanded its relationship with MorningStar Senior Living through the deal, partnering... Read More »
  • Blueprint Handles Virginia Deal

    A publicly traded company engaged Blueprint to sell a value-add independent living community in a growing submarket of Richmond, Virginia. Built in 1987, the 122-unit community could benefit from investments in the physical plant. It was also not stabilized.  A competitive market generated multiple bids in multiple rounds and improved... Read More »
  • Public REIT Acquires Full-Continuum Communities

    A pair of full-continuum seniors housing communities that sit approximately 10 miles apart traded in Northwest Arkansas. Village on the Park Bentonville in Bentonville and Village on the Park Rogers in Rogers offer a total of 208 independent living, assisted living and memory care units. Each community also offers contiguous land for further... Read More »
  • VIUM Capital Leads HUD LEAN Mid-Year Rankings

    HUD’s fiscal year 2026 hit the halfway point on March 31, and so far VIUM Capital is leading the way in closed 232 loans and by total loan volume with 41 transactions and $598.0 million in volume, respectively. That represents 22% of the program’s closed loans in the first half of the fiscal year and 19% of the total volume. And 32 of VIUM’s HUD... Read More »
CIBC Springs Ahead with Deal Flow

CIBC Springs Ahead with Deal Flow

CIBC has been hard at work this Spring, successfully closing several acquisition financings for senior care clients across the country. The largest was a $51.5 million term loan that supported the purchase of four skilled nursing facilities in Illinois totaling 586 beds. Historical performance trended positively over the last two years across the portfolio, and going forward, occupancy is expected to be in the high-70% range, with continued improvement in operating margins. The borrower received the term loan plus a $2.5 million capital expenditure non-revolving line of credit and an $8 million working capital revolving line of credit. Dan Forrer handled the transaction for CIBC Bank USA.... Read More »
Regional Owner/Operator Enters New State

Regional Owner/Operator Enters New State

A regional owner/operator looking to enter the state of Indiana acquired Smith Farms Manor, an independent living community in Auburn, about 30 miles south of the Michigan border. Built in 1998, the community features 51 units and is well maintained. It sits on an attractive four-acre campus down the street from Parkview DeKalb Hospital and off of Interstate 69. However, there is room for improvement, as occupancy was 53% and the community was losing money on around $1.9 million of revenues. Its Missouri-based regional owner/operator had acquired the asset as part of a portfolio purchase and was divesting due to it not being a good long-term fit for the company.  Jeff Binder, Ryan Saul,... Read More »
Skilled Nursing Portfolio Gets New Operator

Skilled Nursing Portfolio Gets New Operator

Evans Senior Investments secured a new lease for a skilled nursing portfolio in Tennessee on behalf of an institutional owner. The portfolio features four assets and was operating below 70% occupancy with margins under 10%. Despite that performance, ESI secured a lease $3 million above in-place cash flow, reflecting the operational upside that was unrealized by the prior operator. The new operating tenant is entering the state through the transaction. Read More »
Seniors Housing and Care M&A Remains Elevated in Q1:26

Seniors Housing and Care M&A Remains Elevated in Q1:26

The number of publicly announced seniors housing and care acquisitions in the first quarter of 2026 reached 231 deals, based on new acquisition data from LevinPro LTC. This represents a 19.8% decrease from the 288 transactions disclosed in the fourth quarter of 2025, but a 25.5% increase from the 184 deals in Q1:25.   “It was always going to be difficult to top Q4:25, which set records for the highest number of publicly announced transactions in both a single quarter and a month, as well as price volume in a single day,” stated Ben Swett, Managing Editor of The SeniorCare Investor. “However, investor sentiment remains strong, operations are... Read More »
Clarion Acquires Again in Colorado

Clarion Acquires Again in Colorado

Two years after opening a 160-unit seniors housing community in Centennial, Colorado (Denver MSA), MorningStar Senior Living announced an expanding relationship with Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment company and specialty investment manager of Franklin Templeton, in its acquisition of MorningStar at Holly Park. The community features independent living, assisted living and memory care services, and it reached 90% occupancy just nine months after opening. Today, it is fully occupied with an extensive waiting list.  The transaction advances Clarion Partners’ strategy of investing in high-end seniors housing communities alongside high quality operating partners. MorningStar... Read More »
Public REIT Acquires New England Seniors Housing Portfolio

Public REIT Acquires New England Seniors Housing Portfolio

Blueprint announced that it handled the sale of a three-community private pay seniors housing portfolio in Rhode Island. A Dallas-based private equity firm engaged Blueprint in 2025 to sell the portfolio, which it acquired with Capital Health Group in 2019. The assets comprise 367 independent living, assisted living and memory care units in the Providence, Rhode Island MSA.  The East Providence, Johnston and East Greenwich communities included a highly stabilized, cash-flowing AL/MC community, a large IL/AL/MC community with stable cash flow but meaningful occupancy upside, and a value-add turnaround community. After they were acquired in 2019, ownership brought in a new manager,... Read More »